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Date:      Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:22:43 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c compat.c cond.c dir.c hash.c job.c job.h list.h lst.h main.c make.c make.h parse.c sprite.h suff.c targ.c var.c src/usr.bin/make/lst.lib lstAppend.c lstConcat.c lstDatum.c lstDeQueue.c lstDestroy.c lstDupl.c ... 
Message-ID:  <200012031022.eB3AMje33008@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031903500.591-100000@besplex.bde.org> ; from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>  "Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:12:24 %2B1100."
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031903500.591-100000@besplex.bde.org> 

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> >   There's no reason to use fancy forms of NULL.  Replace all instances
> >   of NIL, NILLST, NILLGNODE, etc. with NULL.
> 
> K&R support is one reason.  There are also stylistic reasons.  Programmers
> who believe in explicit casting of values returned by malloc(), like the
> author of make(1), may believe in explicit types for everything.

K&R is not a reason anymore. There are ANSI --> K&R tools. Supporting
K&R today makes as much sense as supporting BCPL.

M
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